Film

The Beggar of Cawnpore

19161hDrama

Director: Charles Swickard
Year: 1916

Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes.

Top cast

H.B. Warner

Dr. Robert Lowndes

Lola May

Betty Archer

Wyndham Standing

Capt. Guy Douglas

Alfred Hollingsworth

Mulhar Rao

Harold Entwistle

Col. Archer

Wedgwood Nowell

Werner - the Engineer

Directed by

Charles Swickard

Written by

C. Gardner Sullivan

Produced by

Thomas H. Ince